HAL may refer to:

Aviation

  • Halali Airport (IATA airport code: HAL) Halali, Oshikoto, Namibia
  • Hawaiian Airlines (former ICAO airline code: HAL)
  • HAL Airport, Bengaluru, India
  • Hindustan Aeronautics Limited an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fighter aircraft and helicopters

Businesses

  • HAL Allergy, a Dutch pharmaceutical company
  • HAL Computer Systems, a defunct computer manufacturer
  • HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game developer
  • Halliburton's New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol
  • Hamburg America Line, a shipping company
  • Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, an Indian aerospace manufacturer of fighter aircraft and helicopters
  • Hindustan Antibiotics Limited, an Indian public sector pharmaceutical manufacturer
  • Holland America Line, a cruise ship operator
  • HAL FM, or CHNS-FM, a classic rock station in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Computing

  • Hardware abstraction layer, a layer of software that hides hardware differences from higher level programs
  • HAL (software), an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer for Unix-like systems
  • HAL/S, the computer language used to program the Space Shuttle's computers
  • HAL, a Lotus Development product released in 1986
  • Hackers at Large, a Dutch hackers and security conference
  • Hypertext Application Language, a standard convention for defining hypermedia such as links to external resources within JSON or XML code

Entertainment

  • HAL 9000, a fictional computer in the Space Odyssey series
  • Hal (Japanese band), a Japanese pop band
  • Hal (Irish band), an Irish rock band
  • H.A.L. (G.I. Joe), a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe

Other

  • HAL (automobile), a car built in Cleveland 1916-1918
  • HAL (gene), which encodes the enzyme histidine ammonia-lyase
  • HAL (open archive) (Hyper Articles en Ligne), a French online research open archive
  • Hybrid Assistive Limb, a powered exoskeleton suit
  • Het Amsterdams Lyceum, a Dutch secondary school
  • Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC, a football club in Bangalore, India
  • Hyperspace Analogue to Language, a semantic memory model
  • Hyundai A-League, an Australian professional association football league
  • Halim LRT station, a light rail station in Jakarta, Indonesia

See also

  • Hal (disambiguation)
  • Hot air leveling, surface finish in printed circuit boards manufacturing